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Source: "Occult Principles of Health & Healing" by Max Heindel

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                       ASTROLOGY AS AN AID TO HEALING:

                       ASTROLOGICAL BASIS FOR HEALING:

   It is well known to the modern physician that the condition of the blood,
and therefore the condition of the whole body,  changes in sympathy with the
state of mind of the patient,  and the more the physician uses suggestion as
an adjunct to medicine the more successful he is.   Few perhaps would credit
the  further fact that both our mental and physical condition is  influenced
by planetary rays which change as the planets move.  In these days since the
principle  of  radio-activity has been established we  know  that  everybody
projects  into space numberless little particles.   Wireless telegraphy  has
taught us that etheric waves travel swiftly and surely through space and op-
erate  a key according to our will.   We also know that the rays of the  sun
affect  us differently in the morning when they strike us horizontally  than
at  noon  when  they  are  perpendicular.   If  the  light  rays  from   the
swift-moving sun produce physical and mental changes, may not the persistent
rays of slower planets also have an effect?  If they have,  they are factors
in  health  not to be overlooked by a thoroughly scientific healer,  and  we
therefore maintain that results may be obtained more easily at certain times
when the stellar rays are propitious for the healing of a particular disease

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or  for treatment with remedies previously prepared under auspicious  condi-
tions.

   If physicians would study the science of astrology,  they would thus with
a very slight effort be able to diagnose their patient's condition in a man-
ner  altogether impossible from the ordinary diagnostician's point of  view.
Some physicians are waking up to that fact and have discovered by their  ex-
periences  that  the  heavenly bodies do have an influence  upon  the  human
frame.   For instance, when the writer was in Portland, Oregon,  a physician
mentioned  as his observation that whenever it was possible for him to  per-
form  an operation while the moon was increasing in light,  that is to  say,
going  from the new to the full, the operation was always successful and  no
complications would set in.   On the other hand, he had found that when cir-
cumstances  compelled  him to perform an operation when the Moon  was  going
from the full to the dark there was great danger of trouble,  and that  such
operations were never as satisfactory as those performed while the light  of
the Moon was increasing.

    The  way to find out the peculiarities of the Spirit that dwells in  the
patient's body is to cast his horoscope to see when the times are propitious
for the administration of drugs,  giving the appropriate HERBS at the proper
time.   Paracelsus did that, and therefore he was always successful with his
patients;  he never made a mistake.   There are some who use  astrology  for
that purpose today;  the writer, for instance, has thus used it in diagnosis
in  many  cases.   He has then always been able to see  the  crises  in  the
patient's  condition,  the past, present, and future; and thus has been able

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to afford much relief to persons suffering from various illnesses.  It is to
such uses that astrology should be put, and not degraded into fortunetelling
for the sake of gold, for, like all spiritual sciences,  it ought to be used
for the benefit of humanity, regardless of mercenary considerations.

   There are seven spheres,  the planets of our solar system.   Each has its
own keynote and emits a sound varying from that of every other planet.   One
or  more among them vibrates in particular synchrony with the seed  atom  of
the  Ego  then  seeking embodiment.   This planet then  corresponds  to  the
"tonic"  in the music scale,  and though the tones from all the planets  are
necessary to build up an organism completely,  each is modified and made  to
conform  to the basic impact given by the most harmonious planet,  which  is
therefore  the ruler of that life.   As in terrestrial music so also in  the
celestial  there are harmonies and discords, and these all impinge upon  the
seed atom and aid in building the archetype.   Vibratory lines of force  are
thus formed, which later attract and arrange physical particles as spores of
sand  are marshaled into geometrical figures by bowing a brass plate with  a
violin bow.

   Along  these  archetypal lines of vibration the physical  body  is  later
built, and thus it expresses accurately the harmony of the spheres as it was
played during the period of construction.   This period,  however,  is  much
longer than the actual period of gestation, and varies according to the com-
plexity  of the structure required by the life seeking  physical  manifesta-
tion.   Nor is the process of construction of the archetype continuous,  for
under aspects of the  planets  which produce notes to which vibratory powers

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of  the seed atom cannot respond it simply hums over those which it has  al-
ready learned, and thus engaged it waits for a new sound which it can use to
build more of the organism which it desires in order to express itself.

    Thus,  seeing that the terrestrial organism which each of us inhabits is
molded along vibratory lines produced by the song of the spheres, we may re-
alize that the inharmonies which express themselves as disease are  produced
in the first place by the spiritual inharmony within.  It is further evident
that  if  we obtain accurate knowledge concerning the direct  cause  of  the
inharmony and remedy it,  the physical manifestation of disease will shortly
disappear.  It is this information which is given by the horoscope of birth,
for  there each planet in its house and sign expresses harmony  or  discord,
health or disease.   Therefore,  all methods of healing are adequate only in
proportion  as they take into consideration the stellar harmonies  and  dis-
cords expressed in the wheel of life--the horoscope.

   While the laws of Nature that govern in the lower realms are all-powerful
under  ordinary circumstances,  there are higher laws which pertain  to  the
spiritual realms and which may under certain circumstances be made to super-
sede  the former.   For instance,  the forgiveness of sins upon  recognition
thereof  and true repentance is made to supersede the law which demands  and
eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.   When Christ walked upon this Earth
and healed the sick, He, being the lord of the Sun,  embodied within Himself
the synthesis of the stellar vibrations as the octave embodies all the tones
of the scale, and He could  therefore  emit from Himself the true corrective

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planetary influence required in each case.  He sensed the inharmony and knew
at once wherewith to offset it by virtue of His exalted development.  He had
no need of any further preparation,  but obtained results at once by substi-
tuting harmony for the planetary discord which caused the disease  wherewith
He was dealing.   Only in one case did He take refuge in the higher law  and
say, "Arise, thy sins are forgiven."

   Likewise with the ordinary methods employed in the Rosicrucian System  of
Healing,  they  depend upon a knowledge of the planetary  inharmonies  which
cause disease and the correcting influence which will remedy the same.  This
has sufficed in all the instances which have come under our notice to  date.
However,  there is a more powerful method available under a higher law which
may accelerate recovery in cases of long standing, and under certain circum-
stances  where  the sincere and heartfelt recognition of wrong  exists,  may
even obliterate the effects of disease before destiny, cold and hard,  would
otherwise so decree.

   When we look with spiritual vision upon one who is diseased,  whether the
physical  body be emaciated or not,  it is plainly evident to the Seer  that
the finer vehicles are much more tenuous than during health.   Thus they  do
not transmit to the physical body a proper quota of vitality,  and as a con-
sequence that instrument becomes more or less disrupted.   But whatever  may
be the state of emaciation of the rest of the physical body, certain centers
which  are tenuous during health in a degree varying with the spiritual  de-
velopment  of the man,  become clogged in an increasing degree according  to
the  seriousness  of  the  disease.   This  is particularly true of the main

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center between the eyebrows.   Therein the Spirit is immured,  sometimes  to
such an extent that it loses touch with the outer world and its progress and
becomes  so  thoroughly centered upon its own condition that  only  complete
rupture of the physical body can set it free.  This may be a process of long
years,  and in the meantime the planetary inharmony which caused the initial
disease may have passed by,  but the sufferer is unable to take advantage of
the improved conditions.   In such cases a spiritual outpouring of a special
kind is necessary to bring to the soul its message, "Thy sins are forgiven."
When that has been heard,  it may respond to the command,  "Take up thy  bed
and walk."

   None among our present humanity can measure anywhere near the stature  of
the Christ,  consequently none can exercise His power in such extreme cases;
but  the need of that power in active manifestation exists today as much  as
it did two thousand years ago.   Spirit pervades everything in and upon  our
planet,  but in a varying measure.  It has more affinity for some substances
than for others.   Being an emanation from the Christ Principle,  it is  the
Universal  Spirit composing the World of Life Spirit that restores the  syn-
thetic harmony of the body.

          THE LAWS OF COMPATIBILITY AND SYSTEMIC RECEPTIBILITY:

   There   are two basic laws in the science of Astrotherapy or  healing  by
use of the stellar ray; one is the Law of Compatability, the other,  the law
of  Systemic  Receptibility.   By knowledge and intelligent  application  of
these laws the sick regain health much more  rapidly than otherwise and with

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minimum effort on the part of the health adjuster.

   At  the  time of conception the Moon was in the degree which  ascends  at
birth (or its opposite); the vital body was then placed in the mother's womb
as  a  matrix into which the chemical elements forming our  dense  body  are
built.   The  vital body emits a sound similar to the buzz of  a  bumblebee.
During  life  these etheric sound waves attract and place the  chemical  el-
ements of our food so that they are formed into organs and tissues.  So long
as the etheric sound waves in our vital body are in harmony with the keynote
of the archetype,  the chemical elements wherewith we nourish our dense body
are  properly  disposed of and assimilated,  and health prevails  no  matter
whether we are stout or thin, of rosy complexion or sallow,  or whatever the
outward appearance.   But the moment the sound waves in the vital body  vary
from the archetypal key-note,  this dissonance places the chemical  elements
of  our food in a manner incongruous with the lines of force in  the  arche-
type.

   Then imperfect elimination of waste,  accumulation of poison in the  sys-
tem,  and abnormal growths and other conditions become manifest in the dense
body,  and  disease continues until harmony has been restored to  the  vital
body.  When the invisible cause has been removed, the visible effects disap-
pear,  and health is restored.  Thus we see that incipient disease manifests
in the vital body before the dense body begins to show signs of  disability,
and recovery of the vital body also precedes convalescence.

   When  a  healthy  person  meets  with an  accident,  his  vital  body  is
unimpaired;  therefore  he  may not feel the full extent of the injury until

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several days afterwards.  If he survives the shock of the maximum dissonance
between the vital body and the archetype, the chances are good for recovery.

   The pitch of the etheric vibration in the vital body is determined by the
rising sign, for the reason given.  Each of the twelve signs imparts a sound
different from that of all the other signs,  as each of the twelve signs  in
the chromatic scale varies from the rest.  Some notes blend harmoniously and
with a pleasing effect;  others are basically discordant and grate upon  our
sensibilities.   Similarly,  the harmony of their rising  signs  makes  some
people  agreeable and capable of helping and healing each other when  neces-
sary,  while  people whose rising signs are in dissonance can  neither  give
each other help nor receive it from each other.

   The first consideration,  when about to undertake a case,  is to discover
the basic spiritual relationship between the healer and patient.  If the Law
of Compatability shows harmony,  the outlook is good for a speedy  recovery;
but where inharmony appears,  the patient should be turned over to a  doctor
or healer with whom he is in accord.

   This is the method which the Elder Brothers use in apportioning  patients
among  Invisible Helpers,  and it is the key to the success we have  had  in
benefiting all who have applied to Headquarters for help.

   Astrologically,  there are four elements:  Fire, Air,  Earth,  and Water.
The  planets are so many foci through which the influences of the signs  are
projected upon the newborn babe and give tone to the body,   particularly if
located in the Ascendant.  The success of the healer varies in proportion as

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his  constitution agrees with that of the patient's ascending sign,  whether
fiery, earthy, airy, or water.

   When Saturn in the horoscope of one person occupies any degree of the zo-
diac included in the 1st or 6th house of another,  those people are mutually
incompatible and incapable of conferring benefit upon each other.   Mars and
Uranus also have an evil effect, but their force is quickly spent; it may be
compared to the snap of a terrier.   But the influence of Saturn is like the
locked jaws of a bulldog, a strangle hold, a death grip, from which there is
no release.

    The Sun is the great reservoir of LIFE, the very opposite of Saturn;  we
may  therefore readily see that its position would mark one as  particularly
beneficial  to a certain class and in certain diseases.   This influence  is
determined by its position according to triplicity.   Thus,  those who  have
the  Sun in one of the fiery signs have great healing power with respect  to
people suffering from diseases ruled by these signs;  those with the Sun  in
airy signs have power over diseases usual to airy signs,  etc.   Those  born
under  the  cardinal  sign of a certain triplicity are  most  successful  in
treating acute cases of disease pertaining to those three signs; one who has
the Sun in a fixed sign is apt in the cure of chronic diseases of that  tri-
plicity.   Those born with the Sun in common signs make the least successful
healers, but have more power to soothe the sick, and often bring recovery by
their quieting influence on the patient's nerves.  Therefore,  they make the
best nurses for patients under their triplicity,  especially where there  is
mental trouble or where physical illness is the result of mental unrest.

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   Thus, people born when the Sun was in one of the fiery signs, Aries, Leo,
or  Sagittarius,  are particularly successful in the treatment of the  head,
heart, spinal cord, femoral region, fevers, etc.  Those born in April,  with
the  Sun in Aries,  would be best for the treatment of acute cases of  those
ailments.   Those  born in August,  with the Sun in Leo,  would  succeed  in
chronic cases where others would fail,  and if these healers secure a  nurse
having the Sun in Sagittarius, he or she will aid them in all their cases as
no one else could.  The same holds good of the other triplicities.

                      INFLUENCE OF THE MOON IN HEALING:

   The Moon is the heavenly orb that brings all things to pass;  whatever is
foreshown  by all the other planets never comes to fruition until  the  Moon
brings it to a climax.

   There is within the human body an ebb and flow, a tide,  just the same as
there is in the outside world.   There are critical periods in certain  dis-
eases  in particular that can be measured accurately by the Moon and  it  is
therefore  important  that  all understand the  influence  of  this  unusual
planet.

   There  is a cosmic force that culminates at the New Moon and  another  at
the time when the Moon is full.  Everything that is started from the time of
the  New Moon until the full increases in intensity and  finally  culminates
when the Moon is full.   That period marks the flowing out of the life  that
comes from the Sun and is reflected to us by way of the Moon.  This force is
a  great aid in building up the body and keeping it in a healthy  condition.
From  the  Full  Moon  to  the  time  of the New Moon this great light force

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becomes darker and darker and everything that has come to a focus begins to
fade and gradually dies.

   Knowing that the Moon has these two influences according to whether it is
increasing or decreasing,  we find that in applying treatment notice must be
taken of them.   All treatments, like drugs, may be divided into two general
classes:  stimulants and sedatives.  The first class has a distinctly better
effect and is more easily applied during the increase of the Moon,  and  the
other is found much more effectual if used during the Moon's decrease.

   The general rule is:   From the time of the New Moon to that of the  Full
Moon stimulants produce the greatest effect and sedatives are weakest.   De-
crease the dose of stimulants and increase that of sedatives.  The exception
is:  When the Moon increasing approaches a conjunction to Saturn give larger
doses of stimulants and smaller doses of sedatives.

   When  the  Moon is increasing and approaching a conjunction to  Mars  and
Mercury, stimulants have their maximum and sedatives their minimum effect.

   When  the increasing Moon is in good aspect to Jupiter and Venus  cardiac
stimulation produces the most lasting results.   Palpitation is most  effec-
tively treated when the Moon is decreasing and aspects the before  mentioned
planets favorably.   Apply heart stimulants with extreme care when the  Moon
aspects these planets unfavorably,  especially when dark.   Anesthetics  are
also then most liable to produce fatal results.  If we inhibit the function-
ing of the pneumogastric nerve to a certain extent,  we quiet the heart  ac-
tion  and  are  then  applying what would be the equivalent of a sedative in

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medicine.   Manipulation of this nerve in such a way as to stimulate  action
is applying the equivalent of a medical stimulant.

                           PLANETARY POLARITIES:

   When we study magnetism we are dealing with an invisible force; and ordi-
narily we can at best state the way it manifests in the Physical World only,
as is the case whenever we deal with any FORCE.   The Physical World is  the
world  of effects;  the causes are hidden from our sight,  though  they  are
nearer than hands or feet.   Force is all about us,  invisible and only seen
by the effects it produces.

   If we take a dish of water, for illustration, and allow it to freeze,  we
shall  see a myriad of ice crystals,  beautiful geometrical figures.   These
show the lines along which the water congealed and these lines are lines  of
force which were present before the water congealed; but they were invisible
until the proper conditions were furnished them and they became manifest.

   In the same way there are lines of force going between the two poles of a
magnet;  they are neither seen nor felt until we bring iron or iron  filings
into the place where they are, when they will manifest by arranging the fil-
ings  in an orderly pattern.   By making the proper conditions we may  cause
any of the nature forces to show their effects--moving our street cars, car-
rying messages with lightning speed over thousands of miles, etc., etc., but
the  FORCE itself is ever invisible.  We know that magnetism travels  always
at right angles to the electric current from which it manifests; we know the
difference  between  the manifestation of the electric and magnetic current,

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so dependent upon one another,  but we have never seen either;  though  they
are about the most valuable servants we have today.

   Magnetism may be divided into "mineral" and "animal" magnetism, though in
reality they are one,  but the former has very little influence upon  animal
tissue, while the latter is generally impotent in working with minerals.

   The mineral magnetism is derived directly from lodestones which are  used
to magnetize iron; this process gives to the metal thus treated the property
of attracting iron.   This kind of magnet is very little used,  however,  as
its magnetism becomes depleted,  is too weak in proportion to its bulk,  and
principally  because  the  magnetic force cannot be  controlled  in  such  a
so-called "permanent" magnet.

   The "electromagnet"  is also a "mineral" magnet.  It is simply a piece of
iron  wound round with many turns of wire,  and the strength of  the  magnet
varies as the number of turns of wire, and the strength of the electric cur-
rent that is passed through it.

   Electricity is all about us in a diffused state, of no use for industrial
purposes until it is COMPRESSED and forced through the electric wires by the
powerful ELECTROMAGNETS.   We must have MAGNETISM in the FIRST place  before
we can get any electricity.   Before a new electric generator is started the
"fields," which are nothing but electromagnets, must be magnetized.  If this
is  not done they may turn it till the crack of doom,  at any rate of  speed
they  please,  and  it will never light a single lamp nor move  a  grain  of
weight;  all  depends  upon  the  magnetism  being  there FIRST.  After this

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magnetism  is once started it will leave a little behind when the  generator
is shut down, and this so-called "residual magnetism" will be the nucleus of
force to be built up each time the generator is started afresh.

   All bodies of plants, animals, and men are but transformed mineral.  They
have  all  come from the mineral kingdom in the first  place,  and  chemical
analysis of the plant,  animal,  and human bodies brings out the fact beyond
cavil.  Moreover, we know that the plants get their sustenance from the min-
eral soil,  and both animal and man are eating mineral when they consume the
plants  as food;  even when man eats the animals he is  nevertheless  eating
mineral compounds, and therefore he gets with his food both the mineral sub-
stances and the magnetic force which they contain.

   This force we see manifesting in "haemoglobin,"  or the red coloring mat-
ter in the blood,  which attracts the life-giving oxygen when it comes  into
contact with it in the millions of minute capillaries of the lungs,  parting
with it as readily when it passes through the capillaries which all over the
body connect the arteries with the veins.  Why is this?

   To understand this,  we must acquaint ourselves a little closer with  the
way magnetism manifests as seen in industrial uses.

   There are always two fields or a multiple of two fields in a generator or
motor,  every alternate "field" or magnet being "north-pole" and every other
alternating one "south-pole."   If we wish to run two or more generators  in
"multiple"  and force electricity into the same wire, the first requisite is

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that the magnetic current in the field-magnets should RUN IN THE SAME DIREC-
TION.

   If that were not the case, they would not run together; they would gener-
ate currents going in OPPOSITE directions, blowing their fuses.   That would
be  because  the poles in one generator,  which should have  attracted,  re-
pelled,  and vice versa.  The remedy is to change the ends of the wire which
magnetizes the field; then the magnetic current in one generator will become
like the current of the other, and both will run smoothly together.

   Similar conditions prevail in magnetic healing; a certain vibratory pitch
and  magnetic polarity were infused into each of us when the stellar  forces
surged  through our bodies and gave us our planetary baptism at  the  moment
when we drew our first complete breath.   These are modified during our pil-
grimage of life,  but in the main their initial impulse remains  undisturbed
and therefore the horoscope at birth remains the most vital power in life to
determine our sympathies and antipathies as well as all other matters.  Nay,
more, its pronouncements are more reliable than our conscious likes and dis-
likes.

   Sometimes  we  may meet and learn to like a person,  although we  have  a
feeling that he has an inimical influence on us for which we cannot account,
and  therefore strive to put aside;  but a comparison of his horoscope  with
our own will reveal the reason and if we are wise we heed its warning, or as
surely  as  the circling stars move in their orbits around the Sun  we  will
live to regret our disregard of this handwriting on the wall.

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   But there are also many cases when we do not sense the antipathy  between
ourselves and a certain person,  though the horoscope reveals it,  and if we
see  the  signs when comparing the two horoscopes we may  feel  inclined  to
trust  our feelings rather than the stellar script of the horoscopes.   That
also will in time lead to trouble, for the planetary polarity is certain  to
manifest in time unless both parties are sufficiently evolved to rule  their
stars  in  a  large measure.   Such people are few and far  between  at  our
present stage of evolution.  Therefore we shall do well if we use our knowl-
edge of the stellar script to compare our horoscopes with those at least who
come intimately into our lives.   This may save both them and us much misery
and  heartache.   We would advise this course particularly with regard to  a
healer and his patients,  and with reference to a prospective marriage part-
ner.

   When anyone is ill, resistance is at the lowest ebb,  and on that account
he is least able to withstand outside influences.   So the vibrations of the
healer  have  practically unrestrained effect,  and even though  he  may  be
ensouled by the noblest of altruistic motives, desiring to pour out his very
life  for the benefit of the patient, if their stars were adverse at  birth,
his vibratory pitch and magnetism are bound to have an inimical effect  upon
the patient.  Therefore it is of prime necessity that any healer should have
a knowledge of astrology and the Law of Compatibility, whether he belongs to
those who admittedly heal by magnetism and the laying on of hands or to  the
regular  school of physicians,  for the latter also infuse their  vibrations
into  the  patient's  aura  and help or hinder according to the agreement of

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their planetary polarity with that of the patient.

   What  has been said with regard to the healer applies with tenfold  force
to the nurse, for he or she is with the patient practically all the time and
the contact is so much more intimate.

   For healer, nurse, and patient, compatability is determined by the rising
sign,  Saturn,  and the 6th house.  If their rising signs agree in nature so
that all have fiery signs rising, or all have earthy, airy,  or watery signs
rising, they are harmonious, but if the patient has a watery sign rising,  a
nurse or a doctor with fiery signs will have a detrimental effect.

   It is also necessary to see that Saturn in the horoscope of the nurse  or
healer  is  not  placed  in any of the degrees  of  the  zodiac  within  the
patient's 6th house.

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              THE THERAPEUTIC BASIS OF LIGHT, COLOR, AND SOUND:

   God is Light.

   Each  time we sink ourselves in these three words we lave in a  spiritual
fountain  of  inexhaustible depth,  and each succeeding time we  sound  more
thoroughly the divine depths and draw more closely to our Father in heaven.

   With  every  year that passes,  with the aid of the  greatest  telescopes
which the ingenuity and mechanical skill of man have been able to  construct
to pierce the depths of space,  it becomes more evident that the  infinitude
of light teaches us the infinitude of God.

   Truly,  God is ONE and undivided.   He enfolds within His being all  that
is,  as the white light embraces all colors.   But he appears  threefold  in
manifestation,  as  the white light is refracted in  three  primary  colors:
blue yellow, and red.  Wherever we see these colors they are emblematical of
the Father,  Son,  and Holy Spirit.  These three primary rays of divine life
are  diffused or radiated through the Sun and produce  Life,  Consciousness,
and Form upon each of the seven light-bearers, the planets, which are called
"the Seven Spirits before the Throne."   Their names are:   Mercury,  Venus,
Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.

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   Each  of the seven planets receives the light of the Sun in  a  different
measure,  according to its proximity to the central orb and the constitution
of its atmosphere, and the beings upon each, according to the stage of their
development have affinity for some of the solar rays.  They absorb the color
or colors congruous to them,  and reflect the remainder upon the other plan-
ets.   This reflected ray bears with it an impulse of the nature of the  be-
ings with which it has been in contact.

   Thus the divine Light and Life comes to each planet, either directly from
the Sun,  or reflected from its six sister planets, and as the summer breeze
which  has  wafted over blooming fields carries upon  its  silent  invisible
wings  the blended fragrance of a multitude of flowers,  so also the  subtle
influences from the garden of God bring to us the commingled impulses of all
the Spirits and in that varicolored light we live and move and have our  be-
ing.

   The rays which come directly from the Sun are productive of spiritual il-
lumination,  the reflected rays from other planets make for added conscious-
ness and moral development,  and the rays reflected by way of the Moon  give
physical growth.

   But as each planet can absorb only a certain quantity of one or more col-
ors  according to the general stage of evolution there,  so each being  upon
Earth:   mineral,  plant, animal, and man, can absorb and thrive only upon a
certain quantity of the various rays projected upon the Earth.   The remain-
der  do  not affect it or produce sensation,  any more than  the  blind  are
conscious of the light and color which exist everywhere around them.

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   The  white  light of the Sun contains the seven colors of  the  spectrum.
The  occultist  sees even twelve colors, there being five  between  red  and
violet--going  one  way around the circle--in addition to the  red,  orange,
yellow,  green,  etc.,  of the visible spectrum.   Four of these colors  are
quite indescribable,  but the fifth--the middle one of the five--is  similar
to  the tint of a new-blown peach blossom.  It is in fact the color  of  the
vital  body.   Trained  clairvoyants who describe it  as  "bluish-gray,"  or
"reddish-gray,"  etc., are trying to describe a color that has no equivalent
in the Physical World:   and they are therefore compelled to use the nearest
descriptive terms afforded by our language.

   When the three primary colors are interblended,  there appear four  addi-
tional colors, the three secondary colors:  orange, green, purple,  each due
to  the  blending of two primary colors,  and one color (indigo) which  con-
tains  the  entire gamut of colors,  making in all the seven colors  of  the
spectrum.  (Red plus yellow gives orange; blue plus yellow gives green; blue
plus red gives purple.)

   The color of Mars is red; of Venus, yellow;  of mercury,  violet;  of the
Moon,  green;  of the Sun, orange; of Jupiter, blue; of Saturn,  indigo;  of
uranus,  yellow.   We may blend these colors in order to  obtain  help  from
them.   As a matter of fact,  it is the complementary color which is seen in
the Desire World that produces the effect of the physical colors.   If it is
desired to restrain one whose Mars is too prominent, the gems,  colors,  and
metals of Saturn will help,  but if we want to help someone who is moody and

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taciturn, we may use the gems, colors, and metals of Mars to advantage.

   In  the  Physical  World red has the tendency  to  excite  and  energize,
whereas green has a cooling and a soothing effect,  but the opposite is true
when  we look at the matter from the viewpoint of the Desire  World.   There
the complementary color is active,  and has the effect upon our desires  and
emotions  which  we ascribe to the physical color.   We speak  of  jealousy,
which is engendered by impure love, as the green-eyed monster.

   Upon observing the auras of people,  the trained clairvoyant notices  the
scarlet  of  anger,  the gray and steel blue of fear,  the darkish  blue  of
worry,  the red cloud of hate, the black veil of despair,  etc.   A tinge of
soft  sky-blue indicates hope,  optimism, and a dawning  religious  feeling.
Blue shows the highest type of spirituality, but the blue color does not ap-
pear outside the dense body save in the very greatest of saints--only yellow
is usually observable there.

   In primitive people the ground color of the aura is a dull red  like  the
color of a slow burning fire, indicating their passionate, emotional nature.
When  we examine people upon a somewhat higher rung of the ladder of  evolu-
tion,  the  basic color or vibration radiated by them is seen to be of an o-
range hue,  the  yellow of intellect mixed with the  red  of  passion.   The
natural  golden color is the Christ ray finding its chemical  expression  in
the oxygen,  a solar element,  and as we advance upon the path of  evolution
those who are not professedly religious acquire a tinge of gold in their au-
ras due to the higher altruistic impulses common to the West.

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   There  is an intimate connection between color and tone;  when a  certain
note is struck, a certain color appears simultaneously.  In the heaven world
color  and  sound are both present,  but the tone is the originator  of  the
color.   Pythagoras spoke of the harmony of the spheres,  and he did not use
that expression simply as a poetical allusion.  There is such a harmony.  We
are  told  by John that in the beginning was the Word...and without  it  was
nothing made that was made.   That was the creative fiat which first started
the world into being.  We hear of celestial music, for from the point of the
heaven world, everything is first created in terms of sound which then molds
concrete  matter into the multitudinous forms which we see around  us.   Or-
derly  rhythmic  sound  is  the builder of  all  that  is--the  creator  and
sustainer of all form.

   In the occultist's sphere of vision,  the whole solar system is one  vast
musical instrument,  spoken of in the Greek mythology as the "seven-stringed
lyre of Apollo,  the radiant sun god."  As there are twelve semitones in the
chromatic scale, so we have in the heavens, twelve signs of the zodiac,  and
as  we have the seven keys or whole tones on the keyboard of the  piano,  we
have  seven  planets.   The  signs  of the zodiac may  be  said  to  be  the
sounding-board  of  the cosmic harp and the seven planets are  the  strings;
they  emit  different  sounds as they pass through the  various  signs,  and
therefore they influence mankind in diverse manner.  Should the harmony fail
for one single moment,  should there be the slightest discord in that  heav-
enly band, this whole universe  as such must crumble.  For music can destroy

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as well as build.   This has been well proven by great musicians.   For  in-
stance, the grandson of the immortal Felix Mendelssohn has for several years
been experimenting with the power of sound in that direction.   He has  come
to  the conclusion that once we find the keynote of a building,  bridge,  or
other structure,  we may raze that structure to the ground by sounding  that
note sufficiently loud and long.

   Our  supercilious  smiles of bygone days when listening to the  story  of
Joshua  and the walls of Jericho are no longer in place.   The sound of  the
ram's horn undoubtedly struck the keynote of those walls which had been sen-
sitized by the rhythmic tramp of his army in preparation for this final cli-
max.  The rhythmic tramp of many feet will destroy any bridge, and therefore
soldiers are instructed to break step when crossing a bridge.

   Thus  we may say that every planet gives out a keynote which is  the  sum
total  of all the noises upon it,  blended and harmonized by the  indwelling
Planetary  Spirit.   That sound can be heard by the Spirit ear.   As  Goethe
says:

         "The sun intones his ancient song
          Mid rival chant of brother spheres;
          His prescribed course he speeds along
          In thunderous ways, throughout the years."

         "Sound unto the spirit ear proclaims the
             new-born day is here;
          Rocky gates are creaking, rattling,
          Phoebus' wheels are rolling, singing--
          What sound intense the light is bringing."

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   The  invisible  sound-vibrations have great power over  concrete  matter.
They  both build and destroy.   If a small quantity of very fine  powder  is
placed upon a brass or glass plate,  and a violin bow drawn across the edge,
the  vibrations will cause the powder to assume beautiful  geometrical  fig-
ures.   The human voice is also capable of producing these  figures;  always
the same figure for the same tone.

   If   one  note  or  chord  after  another  be  sounded  upon  a   musical
instrument--a piano,  or preferably a violin, for from it more gradations of
tone  can be obtained--a tone will finally be reached which will  cause  the
hearer  to  feel a distinct vibration in the back of the lower part  of  the
head.  Each time that note is struck, the vibration will be felt.  That note
is  the  keynote of the person whom it so affects.   If it be sounded  in  a
dominant way,  loud and long enough, it will kill as surely as a bullet from
a pistol.  If, on the other hand, it is struck slowly and soothingly it will
build and rest the body, tone the nerves and restore health.

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                           SLEEP AND HEALTH:

                          THE VALUE OF SLEEP:

   During  the daytime the vital body specializes the colorless solar  fluid
which is all about us, through the organ we call the spleen.   This vitality
permeates the whole body and is seen by the clairvoyant as a fluid of a pale
rose  color,  having been transmuted upon entering the  physical  body.   It
flows  along every nerve,  and when it is sent out by the brain  centers  in
particularly large quantities it moves the muscles to which the nerves lead.

   The  vital body may be said to be built of points which stick out in  all
directions, inward, outward, upward, and downward, all through the body, and
each  little  point goes through the center of one of  the  chemical  atoms,
causing it to vibrate at a higher rate than its natural speed.   This  vital
body  interpenetrates the dense body from birth till death under all  condi-
tions except when,  for instance,  the blood circulation stops in a  certain
part,  as when we rest a hand upon the edge of a table for some time and  it
"goes to sleep,"  as we say.   Then, if clairvoyant,  we may see the etheric
hand  as  a glove,  and the chemical atoms of the hand  relapse  into  their
natural slow rate of vibration.   When we slap the hand to cause it to "wake
up,"  as  we  say, the peculiar prickling sensation we feel is caused by the

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points of the vital body which then re-enter the sleeping atoms of the  hand
and start them into renewed vibration.

   The vital body leaves the dense body in a similar manner when a person is
dying.   Drowning persons who have been resuscitated experience  an  intense
agony caused by the entrance of these points, which they feel as a prickling
sensation.

   During the daytime,  when the solar fluid is being absorbed by the man in
great quantities, these points of the vital body are blown out or distended,
as it were, by the vital fluid, but as the day advances and poisons of decay
clog the physical body more and more, the vital fluid flows less rapidly; in
the evening there comes a time when the points in the vital body do not  get
a full supply of the life-giving fluid; they shrivel up and the atoms of the
body move more sluggishly in consequence.  Thus the Ego feels the body to be
heavy,  dull,  and tired.  At last there comes a time when, as it were,  the
vital  body collapses and the vibrations of the dense atoms become  so  slow
that the Ego can no longer move the body.   It is forced to withdrawn in or-
der  that  its vehicles may recuperate.   Then we say the body has  gone  to
sleep.

   Sleep is not an inactive state,  however; if it were,  there would be  no
difference in feeling in the morning and no restorative power in sleep.  The
vey word RESTORATION implies activity.

   When a building has become dilapidated from constant wear and tear and it
is  necessary to renovate and restore it, the tenants move out to  give  the
workmen full play.  For similar reasons the Ego moves out of its tenement at
night.  As  the  workmen  work  upon  the  building,  to  make  it  fit  for

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reoccupancy, so the Ego must work upon its building before it will be fit to
re-enter.   And such a work is done by us during the night time, although we
are not conscious of it in our waking state.   It is this activity which re-
moves  the poisons from the system,  and as a result the body is  fresh  and
vigorous in the morning when the Ego enters at the time of waking.

                      HOW TO TREAT DISEASE DURING SLEEP:

   It  has been asked if a person can be influenced in natural sleep  as  he
can in hypnotic sleep, or if there is a difference.  Yes, there is a differ-
ence.   In the natural sleep,  the Ego, clothed in the mind and desire body,
draws outside the physical body and usually hovers over the body,  or at any
rate remains close to it, connected by the silver cord, while the vital body
and the dense body are resting upon the bed.

   It is then possible to influence the person by instilling into his  brain
the thoughts and ideas we wish to communicate.  Nevertheless, we cannot then
get him to do anything or to entertain any idea except that which is in line
with his natural proclivities.   IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMMAND HIM TO DO  ANY-
THING  AND TO ENFORCE OBEDIENCE,  the same as it is when he has been  driven
out  by  the passes of the hypnotist,  for it is the brain which  moves  the
muscles,  and during the natural sleep his brain is interpenetrated  by  his
own vital body and he is in perfect control himself,  while during the  hyp-
notic  sleep the passes of the hypnotist have driven the ether of which  his
vital body is composed out of the brain,  down to the shoulders of the  vic-
tim,  where it lies around his neck and resembles the collar of  a  sweater.

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The  dense brain is then open to the ether from the hypnotist's vital  body,
which displaces that of the proper owner.   Thus,  IN THE HYPNOTIC SLEEP THE
VICTIM HAS NO CHOICE WHATEVER AS TO THE IDEAS HE ENTERTAINS OR THE MOVEMENTS
HE MAKES WITH HIS BODY,  but in the ordinary sleep he is still a free agent.
In fact,  this method of suggestion during sleep is something which  mothers
will find extremely beneficial in treating refractory children,  for if  the
mother will sit by the bed of the sleeping child, hold its hand, speak to it
as she would speak when it is awake, instill into its brain ideas of such  a
nature as she would wish it to entertain,  she will find that in the  waking
state many of these ideas will have taken root.  Also in dealing with a per-
son who is sick or is addicted to drink, if the mother, nurse, or others use
this method, they will find it possible to instill hope and healing, materi-
ally furthering recovery or aiding self-mastery.

                       THE EFFECT OF HYPNOTIC SLEEP:

   From  the  occult viewpoint it is obviously wrong to try to  cure  a  bad
habit,  such as drunkenness, by hypnotism.  Looked at from the standpoint of
one  life,  such methods as those employed by the healers  of  the  Immanuel
Movement,  etc.,  are undoubtedly productive of an immense amount  of  good.
The patient is seated in a chair,  put into sleep and there he is given cer-
tain so-called "suggestions."  He rises and is cured of his bad habit;  from
being a drunkard he becomes a respectable citizen who cares for his wife and
family, and upon the face of it the good seems to be undeniable.

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   But looking at it from the deeper standpoint of the occultist,  WHO VIEWS
THIS LIFE AS ONLY ONE IN MANY, and looking at it from the effect is has upon
the invisible vehicles of man, the case is vastly different.   When a man is
put  into a hypnotic sleep,  the hypnotist makes passes over him which  have
the  effect of expelling the ether from the head of his dense body and  sub-
stituting  the ether of the hypnotist.   The man is then under  the  perfect
domination of another;  he has no free will, and,  therefore,  the so-called
"suggestions"  are in reality COMMANDS which the victim has no choice but to
obey.  Besides, when the hypnotist withdraws his ether and wakens the victim
he is unable to remove all the ether he put into him.  To use a simile, as a
small part of the magnetism infused into an electric dynamo before it can be
started for the first time is left behind and remains as residual  magnetism
to  excite  the fields of the dynamo every time it is started  up,  so  also
there remains a small part of the ether of the hypnotist's vital body in the
medulla  oblongata of the victim,  which is a club the hypnotist holds  over
him all his life,  and it is due to this fact that suggestions to be carried
out  at  a period subsequent to the awakening of the victim  are  invariably
followed.

   Thus  the victim of a hypnotic healer does not overcome the bad habit  by
his  own strength,  but is as much chained in that respect as if he were  in
solitary confinement,  and although in this life he may seem to be a  better
citizen,  when  he returns to Earth in another embodiment he will  have  the
same weakness and have to struggle until at last he overcomes it himself.

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                           PROTECTIVE INFLUENCE:

   There are methods of protecting oneself from inimical influences,  and it
is  better to be enlightened concerning things that threaten so that we  may
take whatever precautions are necessary to meet the emergency.

   When  we live lives of purity,  when our days are filled with service  to
God and to our fellow men,  and with thoughts and actions of the highest no-
bility,  then we create for ourselves the GOLDEN WEDDING GARMENT, which is a
radiant force for good.   No evil is able to penetrate this armor,  for  the
evil acts as a boomerang and recoils on the one who sent it, bringing to him
the evil he wished others.

   It  is a fact than an auric atmosphere surrounds every human  being.   We
know that often we feel the presence of a person whom we do not see,  and we
feel it because there is this atmosphere outside of our dense bodies.   This
is gradually changing;  gradually it is becoming more and more golden in the
West.   The  farther  we  go  with the  Sun,  the  more  this  golden  color
increases--the color of the Christ and of the Christ-like,  the saints  whom
painters  have  depicted with a halo.  Gradually we are becoming  more  like
Him,  and this SOMA PSUCHICON or soul body is taking shape,  is  being  made
ready as our "Wedding Garment."

   But, alas, none of us are altogether good.  We know only too well the war
between  the flesh and the Spirit.   We cannot hide from ourselves the  fact
that like Paul,  "the good that we would do, we do not, and the evil that we
would shun,  that we do."  Far too often our good resolutions come to naught
and  we  do  wrong because it is easier.  Therefore, we all have the nucleus

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of evil within ourselves,  which affords the open sesame for evil forces  to
work  upon.   For that reason it is best for us not to expose ourselves  un-
necessarily  at places where seances are held with Spirits invisible to  us,
no  matter how fine their teachings may sound to the unsophisticated.   Nei-
ther should we take part even as spectators at hypnotic demonstrations,  for
there  also a negative attitude lays one liable to the danger of  obsession.
We should at all times follow the advice of Paul and put on the whole  armor
of  God.   We should be positive in our fight for the good against the  evil
and never let an occasion slip to aid the Elder Brothers by word or deed  in
the Great War for spiritual supremacy.

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